We have showed you individual Punjabi tractor pulling calamities before but never have we showed you something that shows the comprehensive insanity of the entire scene. This video is a compilation of 10 wrecks/near deaths/failures/funny things that have happened during (what looks to be) the last few years in the burgeoning Punjabi tractor pulling scene. These events are not small affairs with some of them appearing to have hundreds, if not thousands of people surrounding the machines and watching them pull against each other. Often they are feet away from tractors waiting to crash back to Earth in no predictable direction. This is the definition of insanity.
What they refer to as Tochan is translated as “Tow-Chain” in English. While at one point a chain may have been part of the program, it seems that the more brutal steel bar is now the linking agent of choice. Due to the mounting point, the tractors almost always climb their own ring gears and get into these insane vertical pull-offs. As you will see, these do not always end well. Between wheels shearing off, tractors flipping over, front ends busting off, and machines breaking completely in half, the risk to life and limb is steep. We have to imagine that there are a few bucks changing hands because no one in the world can be bored enough to do this for free, right?
Things that have not quite made it into the sport yet include such luxuries as seat belts, helmets, full roll cages, rules, crowd control, and jumbotrons. They do not disappoint with the near death experiences though. At least we’re going on the belief that they are all near death…
Not only is the lack of any safety precautions scary, but it looks most of the drivers who wrecked may very well have been stuck wondering how they were going to tend their crops tomorrow!
man there is quite a few dead people in that one
Looks like life under the Obama administration.
How do you get a helmet on a turbin?
Man, look at the crowd! Maybe the NHRA ought to pay attention to this. Hook two Pro-stockers end to end and have at it. I can hear Force now,”well, we added too much clutch to it and shook the tires, but we’ll back next week and have our crap together”.
In number 3, I swear his mate falls off and ends up under the back wheel.
But damned if he was going to back off!
When you have to go back to the farm and tell your dad you broke the tractor and killed your brother, right before harvest…
CAT ASS TROPHY!!!
One good elephant will easily beat all of these clunkers.
OK, now I want to see a tractor vs elephant video.